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The book "Economies, Institutions and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World" explores the complex relationship between economies, institutions, and territories. It argues that these components are constantly changing and influencing each other, with post-industrial economies and environmental factors adding to the complexity. The book addresses various issues such as the embedding of economic processes at the local level, the stress on boundaries between state and market, and the emergence of new elites. It is divided into four sections and contains case studies from around the world. While the book does not address the impacts of digital capitalism, it offers valuable insights for future studies in economics, economic geography, and economic sociology. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 10, "Addressing Unevenness" is the most attractive part here: it connects behavioural theory to (regional) economic development, transformation, and well-being. Chapter 8 is the crowning achievement to which the two preceding chapter built up: they provided an analysis how "culture and personality can be measured and examined as a process of co-evolution" (p. 191), and chapter 8 links the resulting "human agency potential" to entrepreneurship and innovation. Although these chapters read like earlier papers or reports that have now been integrated into the book, they still provide valuable inpiration for how the connection from agents to regions actually can work. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Handbook of Evolutionaty Economic Geography," edited by Ron Boschma and Ron Martin.

The article reviews the book "New Directions in Economic Geography," edited by Bernhard Fingleton.